Turkey coup attempt: military claims government takeover

• Action taken to ‘reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms’, say armed forces
• Turkish PM Binali Yıldırım says security forces are tackling situation
• Military aircraft seen flying over capital and gunfire reported



An announcement on the Turkish state broadcaster TRT says that a curfew has been declared across Turkey and that airports are closed. The announcer says they are being made to read a statement by the military.

The statement promises a new constitution for the country and says that democracy and the secular rule of law had been undermined. Martial law has also been imposed, it adds.

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Presidential sources say: “This is an attack against Turkish democracy. A group within the armed forces has made an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government outside the chain of command.

“The statement made on behalf of the Armed Forces wasn’t authorised by the military command. We urge the world to stand in solidarity with the Turkish people.”

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Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım late Friday said a group within Turkey's military was engaged in what appeared to be an attempted coup.

Yıldırım said on television: "It is correct that there was an attempt."

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was reported to be safe, however the official Anadolu Agency reported that the Turkish Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar was taken hostage by a group within the military.

Yıldırım didn't provide details, but said Turkey would never allow any "initiative that would interrupt democracy."

"Those who are in this illegal act will pay the highest price," he added.

Earlier, military jets were heard flying over the capital, Ankara.

Media reports said ambulances were seen in front of the Turkey's military headquarters.

Justice Minister Bozdağ also confirmed that a group tried to stage a coup and assured that the government is on duty.

Arrest warrants were issued for the soldiers who are involved in the coup attempt.

too soon to tell

Turkey accuses U.S. of harboring coup mastermind

Turkey's government, fresh from defeating a coup attempt led by elements of the military, is accusing the United States of harboring the alleged mastermind of the entire plot: reclusive cleric Fetullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania.
Gulen has lived in exile in the Pocono Mountains since 1999 and retains significant influence in Turkey and around the world. He has denied any role in the failed coup, following accusations by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his followers are to blame.
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“Turkey will not be run from a house in Pennsylvania,” Erdogan said Saturday, according to TRT World. “Turkey is not a country that can be bought or sold cheaply.”
The Islamic scholar's apparent response, issued through his Alliance for Shared Values NGO, condemned the attempted coup and called the allegations "especially insulting."
"As someone who suffered under multiple military coups during the past five decades, it is especially insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt. I categorically deny such accusations," Gulen said.

fuckin migrants always tryin to make a better life for themselves n shit

I wonder what is actually taking place behind the scenes

Turkey coup could threaten country's Nato membership, suggests John Kerry


Turkey could fall foul of Nato's "requirement with respect to democracy" if it fails to uphold the rule of law in the wake of an attempted coup, the US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned.

The Turkish government's response to the failed coup has alarmed both the US and the EU, after it described the plotters as a "cancer" which had to be "cleansed" from public institutions.

A State Department spokesman has suggested it is "too soon to say" if a clampdown by the Erdogan government could jeopardise Turkey's membership of Nato.

But Nato's leadership has made it clear that a commitment to "uphold democracy, including tolerating diversity" is one of the five core requirements for members of the alliance.

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In Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said talks on Turkey's bid to the join EU would end if Ankara restores the death penalty.

Her spokesman Steffen Seibert said "the institution of the death penalty can only mean that such a country could not be a member" of the bloc.




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